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stroke (cerebrovascular accident or CVA) articles

Back to Normal
One day, out of the blue, Vic's world went dark and silent. He was rushed to the hospital, where it was determined he'd had a stroke. A second stroke followed on the heels of the first, and when he finally left the hospital, he had severe mobility, vision, hearing, and speech problems.

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Striking out Stroke
You could call it a "brain attack. Stroke - the fourth leading cause of death in Canada - happens when the brain's oxygen supply is cut off, destroying vital nerve cells. Fifty thousand Canadians suffer from stroke each year, and about 16,000 of them die..